AH, I´m so excited for you bro! I hope your birthday goes
great, and I hope you enjoy your ordination to a Priest in the Aaronic
Priesthood. The priesthood is a great power, but like we learn from spiderman,
with great power comes great responsability. Always live worthy to claim the
power that comes with this authority.

Dad, it was sad to hear about Bro. John´s son. Give
condolences to him and his family. Parabems at fulfilling your duties as a home
teacher, I wish I had a dozen more members like you here. If you feel like
going the extra mile, try setting up a time for you to go and teach with the
missionaries, missionaries always are looking for members to teach with.

Mom, I´m safe, don´t you worry. And thank you for your
thoughts about loving the people. The kind of charity that you have inherently
is a gift that I pray for often.

Hunter, you missionary you, keep up the good work. If you
want to take it to the next level, try adding a small simple commitment to the
end of one of your religious discussions (like coming to church, or visiting mormon.org).

Ammon, it´s pretty funny about the sunburn. I got a little
fried myself last week.

Talmage and Zenock, glad you guys had fun at the USO
activity. Keep on livin´ the life!

My tip on missionary work this week- Involve the
missionaries in the ward! Get to know them and their investigators by name. In
many ways the work that they are doing there is more important that the work
I´m doing here because there, you can actually get involved. It´s great that
you pray for me and my investigators (when I have them), but it´s even more
vital that you pray for the missionaries and investigators in your own area!
Know that you have elders in the ward, it should be even easier for our family
to get involved.

Thanks again for your letters of love and support, stay
strong and love the gospel!

Love, Elder Johnson

sorry, I have forgotten to respond to your questions about
you coming to Brazil at the end of my mission.

To be honest, I don´t know how I feel about it. I think it
would be awesome for Dad to go to Sao Paulo to see his old mission, visit the
Sao Paulo temple and whatnot. I´d also love to visit Iguasu falls or the
Pantanal. At the same time, I don´t want the end of my mission to be a tour. I
want to preserve the sacred nature of the mission, and return home alone with
my nametag still on. Those are my thoughts now. But it is far in the future. It
is also something that I would have to get my mission president´s counsel on.